After much debate, British MPs voted on Tuesday to decriminalise abortion in a move that marked the most decisive step on the ...

What led to the push for abortion decriminalization in England and Wales in 2025? On June 17, 2025, a historic vote changed ...

It is believed that if the wider criminal justice bill, of which the amendment is part, passes into law, it would bring ...

The House of Commons voted to create statutory immunity from prosecution for women who terminate their pregnancies, fundamentally altering the criminal law framework that has governed abortion in ...

The NSW inquiry into the risk of slavery for temporary migrant workers hears from a doctor who says many women are choosing ...

Members of British Parliament have voted overwhelmingly in favor of decriminalizing abortion up to birth.

MPs have voted to change abortion legislation to stop women in England and Wales being prosecuted for ending their pregnancy. The ...

“How crazy is that?” says the now 27-year-old. “For myself, I know that having an abortion at the age of 14 was the right thing to do and I stand by the decision. Even as an adult, I look back and ...

The UK's original abortion law - approved in 1861 - stipulated that deliberately ending a pregnancy was a crime, and those ...

The amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill was hailed as the biggest upgrade to England and Wales' abortion laws since ...

AN AMENDMENT to abortion legislation passed in a landslide in a free vote in parliament on Tuesday evening. The vote saw 379 MPs voted in favour of decriminalisation and 137 against, passing with a ...

Legislation which would see abortion decriminalised for women terminating their own pregnancies has cleared the Commons. MPs voted 312 to 95, majority 217 to approve the Crime and Policing Bill at ...